Editing Gaetuli (section)

==Region==
[[File:Mauretania et Numidia.jpg|thumb|300px|Map locating Getulia south of [[Mauretania]]]]
Getulia was the name given to an ancient district in the [[Maghreb]], which in the usage of Roman writers comprised the nomadic Berber tribes of the southern slopes of the [[Aures Mountains]] and [[Atlas Mountains]], as far as the [[Atlantic]], and the oases in the northern part of the [[Sahara]].{{sfn|Chisholm|1911|p=385}} The Gaetulian people were among the oldest inhabitants in northwestern Africa recorded in classical writings.<ref>{{cite journal |journal=The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland |volume=1 |year=1872 |pages=xl-lxi |title=On the Kimmerian and Atlantean Races |first=Hector |last=MacLean |doi=10.2307/2841286 |jstor=2841286}}</ref> They mainly occupied the area of modern-day [[Algeria]] as far north as Gigthis in the southwestern region of [[Tunisia]]{{sfn|Pliny the Elder|1855}} and Southern [[Tripolitania]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Lct6EAAAQBAJ&dq=gaetuli+Tripolitania&pg=PA75|title=a Companion to North Africa in Antiquity|page=75|isbn=9781444350012 |last1=Bruce Hitchner |first1=R. |date=29 March 2022 |publisher=John Wiley & Sons }}</ref> They were bordered by the [[Garamantes]] people to the east and were under the coastal Libyes people.<ref>{{cite book |author=Strabo |title=Geography |volume=Book II, Chapter V}}</ref><ref name=AmJourn>{{cite journal |journal=The American Journal of Philology |volume=122 |issue=2 |year=2001 |pages=179–200 |title=The Myth of Numidian Origins in Sallust's African Excursus (''Iugurtha'' 17.7-18.12) |first=Robert |last=Morstein-Marx |doi=10.1353/ajp.2001.0026|s2cid=162375634 }}</ref> The coastal region of Mauritania was above them and, although they shared many similar characteristics, were distinct from the Mauri people that inhabited it.{{sfn|Pliny the Elder|1855}} The Gaetulians were exposed to the conditions of the harsh African interior near the [[Sahara]] and produced skillful hardened warriors.<ref name=AmJourn /> They were known for horse rearing, and according to [[Strabo]] had 100,000 foals in a single year. They were clad in skins, lived on meat and milk, and the only manufacture connected with their name is that of the purple dye that became famous from the time of [[Caesar Augustus|Augustus]], and was made from the purple shellfish [[Murex|Murex brandaris]] found on the coast, apparently both in the Syrtes and on the Atlantic.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911|p=385}}